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Agri sector lagging behind its potential: World Bank

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s agriculture sector is lagging behind its potential and needs to focus beyond productivity...

Updated 01 Nov, 2022 09:36am

Markets

Prices of essential kitchen items show upward trend

ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential kitchen items have witnessed an upward trend during this week past against the...

Published 30 Oct, 2022 03:57am

Business & Finance

16.7m cell phones manufactured locally in nine months: PTA

ISLAMABAD: Local manufacturing plants have manufactured/assembled 16.7 million phones handsets during the first nine...

Updated 30 Oct, 2022 01:14pm

Pakistan

Tharparkar & Gwadar districts: MOITT launches two projects worth Rs1bn

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MOITT) on Friday launched two projects ...

Published 29 Oct, 2022 05:55am

Pakistan

Irregularities in Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway project: Senate body to write letter to PM, chairman Senate

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Communications on Friday decided to write a letter to chairman Senate ...

Published 29 Oct, 2022 05:55am

Business & Finance

Telenor’s revenue increases in PKR terms

ISLAMABAD: Telenor Pakistan’s revenue declined by around 8 percent in NOK (Norwegian Kroner) terms, while...

Updated 29 Oct, 2022 12:34pm

Business & Finance

SPI inflation up 4.13pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended on October 28, recorded an ...

Updated 29 Oct, 2022 12:32pm

Pakistan

Number of cellular subscribers, teledensity decline

ISLAMABAD: The number of cellular subscribers as well as teledensity declined for the second consecutive month in...

Updated 28 Oct, 2022 07:40am

Technology

Minister apprises GSMA chief of readiness for 5G launch

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for IT & Telecom Syed Aminul Haque on Thursday stated that the strategy for 5G...

Published 28 Oct, 2022 05:58am

Pakistan

New social media rules to be finalised within a month: minister

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque on Wednesday said ...

Published 27 Oct, 2022 05:54am

Business & Finance

Sindh solar energy project rated as ‘moderately unsatisfactory’

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has rated the overall implementation progress of Sindh Solar Energy project – worth $100...

Published 26 Oct, 2022 06:40am

Business & Finance

ITeS export remittances: There has been a lot of soul-searching about decline

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has warned the government that on account of...

Published 25 Oct, 2022 05:51am

Countercyclical support facility loans: Project risks identified by ADB

Documents reveal that Pakistan meets all the criteria required to access ADB’s countercyclical support facility

Updated 25 Oct, 2022 10:01am

Markets

Saudi deferred payment facility: Country imports $100m oil in September

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan imported petroleum products worth $100 million on deferred payment basis under the Saudi oil...

Updated 23 Oct, 2022 05:23pm

Q1 govt external borrowing climbs to $2.234bn

Contrary to past practices, the EAD has also listed the loans taken from the IMF

Updated 22 Oct, 2022 11:50am

Business & Finance

SPI inflation up 0.35pc WoW

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based inflation for the week ended on October 20, recorded an ...

Updated 22 Oct, 2022 09:47am

Fitch cuts long-term forex IDR to ‘CCC+’

ISLAMABAD: Fitch Ratings has downgraded Pakistan’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to...

Updated 22 Oct, 2022 09:46am

ADB board approves $1.5bn financing

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $1.5 billion in financing to help the government of ...

Updated 22 Oct, 2022 09:44am

Business & Finance

Fiscal year 2022-23: IT, ITeS export remittances decline in 1Q

ISLAMABAD: The IT and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) export remittances comprising computer services and call centre...

Published 21 Oct, 2022 07:06am

Pakistan

Pakistan has low participation of female labour force: ADB

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has one of the lowest rates of female labour force participation in Asia, says the Asian...

Published 21 Oct, 2022 06:57am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Dec 26	278.42
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Dec 26	278.27
USD to Japanese Yen / Dec 24	157.14
USD to Swiss Franc / Dec 24	0.90
Pound Sterling to USD / Dec 24	1.25
Euro to USD / Dec 24	1.04

Stock	Volume
Germany DAX 30 / Dec 23	19,848.77
S&P 500 / Dec 24	6,040.04
Nasdaq / Dec 24	20,031.13
Hang Seng / Dec 24	20,098.29
FTSE 100 / Dec 24	8,136.99
Dow Jones / Dec 24	43,297.03
France CAC40 / Dec 24	7,282.69
India Sensex / Dec 26	78,475.29

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Dec 24	70.10
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Dec 24	240,487.70
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Dec 24	2,616.87
Cotton US¢/pound / Dec 24	68.78
Petrol/Litre / Dec 26	252.10
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Dec 26	17,785

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
First Capital Equities / Dec 26 First Capital Equities Limited(FCEL)	6.10 ▲ 1.00 (19.61%)
Sec. Inv. Bank / Dec 26 Security Investment Bank Limited(SIBL)	6.99 ▲ 1.00 (16.69%)
Next Capital / Dec 26 Next Capital Limited(NEXT)	9.90 ▲ 1.00 (11.24%)
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	16.45 ▲ 1.50 (10.03%)
Pak Gulf Leasing / Dec 26 Pak-Gulf Leasing Company Limited(PGLC)	15.81 ▲ 1.44 (10.02%)
Dewan Motors / Dec 26 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	42.21 ▲ 3.84 (10.01%)
Blue-Ex Ltd / Dec 26 Blue-Ex Limited (GEM)(GEMBLUEX)	44.96 ▲ 4.09 (10.01%)
Suhail Jute / Dec 26 Suhail Jute Mills Limited(SUHJ)	99.06 ▲ 9.01 (10.01%)
Altern Energy / Dec 26 Altern Energy Limited(ALTN)	22.65 ▲ 2.06 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Jauharabad Sug / Dec 26 Jauharabad Sugar Mills Limited(JSML)	23.10 ▼ -2.57 (-10.01%)
Mughal Energy / Dec 26 Mughal Energy Limited(GEM)(GEMMEL)	18.45 ▼ -2.05 (-10.00%)
Fateh Ind. / Dec 26 Fateh Industries Limited(FIL)	120.56 ▼ -13.38 (-9.99%)
Olympia Mills / Dec 26 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	36.01 ▼ -3.99 (-9.98%)
Popular Islamic / Dec 26 Popular Islamic Modaraba(PIM)	13.54 ▼ -1.50 (-9.97%)
Arctic Textile / Dec 26 Arctic Textile Mills Limited(ARCTM)	21.60 ▼ -2.37 (-9.89%)
Power Cem(Pref) / Dec 26 Power Cement (Pref)(POWERPS)	12.25 ▼ -1.22 (-9.06%)
Sanghar Sugar / Dec 26 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	24 ▼ -2.33 (-8.85%)
Equity Modaraba / Dec 26 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3 ▼ -0.29 (-8.81%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Dec 26 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	127,408,831 ▼ -0.06
Fauji Foods Ltd / Dec 26 Fauji Foods Limited(FFL)	93,301,142 ▲ 1.50
TRG Pak Ltd / Dec 26 TRG Pakistan Limited(TRG)	46,900,564 ▲ 6.41
Sui South Gas / Dec 26 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	33,559,500 ▼ -1.65
Cnergyico PK / Dec 26 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	33,367,944 ▼ -0.16
K-Electric Ltd. / Dec 26 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	30,254,338 ▼ -0.19
B.O.Punjab / Dec 26 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	30,003,113 ▼ -0.11
Hascol Petrol / Dec 26 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	27,155,152 ▲ 0.87
Aisha Steel Mill / Dec 26 Aisha Steel Mills Limited(ASL)	26,980,436 ▲ 0.09

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